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This central part of the book focuses on intimidation of herbivores by signaling/advertisement, in many ways the opposite strategy of camouflage and some other related visual defenses discussed in previous chapters. In spite of the contrasting strategies (crypsis versus conspicuousness or looking non-tempting/masquerade versus looking dangerous) there are cases where the same visual characters can serve as camouflage or related defense at long distances, and for aposematism at a closer range.
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Lev-Yadun, S. (2016). Aposematism. In: Defensive (anti-herbivory) Coloration in Land Plants. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42096-7_23
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